MN: Essential Behaviors for Admission, Continuation and Graduation

The following amplifies requirements found in the University of Washington Student Conduct Code. For admission, continuation, and graduation in their programs, students need to abide by the following specifications for behaviors and abilities. In this document, "student" pertains to all UW Seattle and UW Tacoma MN students as well as UW Tacoma BSN students. See also Implementation of the Essential Behaviors.

Communication

Students must communicate effectively and sensitively with patients and their families as well as with other students, staff, faculty, professionals, agency personnel, community residents, and others relevant to their areas of study. Expression of ideas and feelings must be clear and appropriate. Students must demonstrate a willingness and ability to give and receive feedback.

Cognitive

Students must be able to reason, analyze, integrate, synthesize, and evaluate in the context of the nursing activities of their programs/areas of study.

Behavioral/Emotional

Students must possess the emotional health required for the full utilization of intellectual abilities, the exercise of sound judgment, and the timely completion of responsibilities in their programs/areas of study. Further, students must be able to maintain mature, sensitive, and effective relationships with patients, students, faculty, staff, other professionals, and agency personnel under all circumstances including highly stressful situations. Students must have the emotional stability to function effectively under stress and adapt to environments that may change rapidly without warning and/or in unpredictable ways as relevant to their programs or areas of study. Students must be able to demonstrate empathy for the situations and circumstances of others and appropriately communicate that empathy. Students must acknowledge that values, attitudes, beliefs, emotions, and experiences affect their perceptions and relationships with others. Students must be able and willing to examine and change behaviors when they interfere with productive individual or team relationships. Students must demonstrate effective and harmonious relationships with the diverse academic, professional, and community environments relevant to their chosen programs of study.

Professional Conduct

Students must possess the ability to reason morally and practice nursing in an ethical manner. They must be willing to learn and abide by professional standards of practice as well as regulations for professional licensure. Students must demonstrate the attributes of compassion, integrity, honesty, responsibility, and tolerance.

Motor and Sensory Skills

Students need to have sufficient motor function and sensory skills in order to be able to execute movements and make observations required in the domain of nursing care or nursing activity in their chosen programs/areas of study.

Reasonable Accommodation for Disabilities

Students must be able to perform all the essential functions of the program with or without accommodation. A student who discloses a disability and requests accommodation will be referred to Disabled Student Services (Seattle) or Disability Support Services (Tacoma). The student may be asked to provide documentation of the disability for the purposes of determining appropriate accommodations. The School will provide reasonable accommodations, but is not required to make modifications that would substantially alter the nature or requirements of the program. If you have questions regarding reasonable accommodation, contact Disabled Student Services (Seattle, phone 206-543-8924) or Disability Support Services (Tacoma, phone 253-692-4493).

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